New Ulm weekly review., 1887-08-31

work tAey do In the fields, and behind eacE
gang foreman rides on horseback AND
keeps them at work It lis hard, continuous
work Self-binding machines, drawn by
three strong horses, roll around and around
the wheat fields, throwing with iron arm a
bound bundle of wheat every ten feet Be
hind the machines walk a line Of shockers. g
shocker TO each machine These men have
to walk as fast as the horses and bend ovel
and pick up heavy bundle of wheat every
ten feet and carry it to a shock. And above
them blazes the fiery Dakota sun. During
threshing it is the same. The steam threshel
never tires The men who pitch bundles il
the field have each to pitch to certain mum
ber OF wagons. The men who drive have
to unload their wagons. The men who
feed the straw into the iron-toothed mouth
OF the machine have to feed all that is
brought to them On one side Of the ma
chine the grain pours out of spout. and is
loaded directly into wagons and hauled tc
the garner. There are just sufficient men to
do the work. For twelve hours every day
they work industriously. 1t is not farming.
1t is the manufacture of wheat which is be-
ing carried on The products of small farms
cannot compete with these so-called bonanza
farms any more successfully than the out
put Of a village blacksmiGh's shop could
works. In the competitive age in which we
live, when the law OF the survival of the
fttest (Which means in industrial pursuits
the cheapest producer) is in full operation, ]
think that these great farms, which are
managed as manufacturing industries are.
will be found to be necessary to enable us to
hold the consuming markets of the world.
They are the outgrowth OF competition. Fol
a month in the spring, and for forty days in
the summer ana fall, the air hanging over
the bonanza farms resounds with the hum OF
industry. Then all is silent and the country
is desolate until the next spring But wheat
has been produced cheaply. Where dc
the men who handle these immense
crops OF wheat come from? Thatsauesrion
cannot be answered accurately Casselton
of dirty, idle men. Americans, Scandinayians
and lrishmen swarmed along its mainss5reet
This crowd of ragged, dirty, half drunken
men We're migratory harvest tramps who
were waiting to be hired Where they come
from and where they go to is unknown to
man. AS harvest approaches they crawl out
OF freight cars which stop at Casselton. They
are seen walking along the dusty. hot high
ways which lead to this town They arrive
during the night They slouch into town by
day. They are, with the exception.of the
Scandinavians, almost invariably dead
broke. dirty and hungry. About eight hun
dred Of these migratory people arrive at
CasselCon in time to assist In harvest and
threshing. which last about forty days They
are paid So per day. So they earn about
$50 each during the Dakota harvest They
mysterionsly disappear. They are ,agricult
ural tramps.
Col. Lomont has not yet made the
time table of his presidential trip public,
but the dates that the president will be in
certain cities have been so far made known
that it is possible to outline IN the :rougha
fair skelet on programme OF the trip. 1t
will be something like this: Sept. 20, leave
WashiuSto on; Oct. /, arrive in st. Louis;
Oct. 2, 3, 4, in st. Louis; Oct. 4, arrive in
Chicago; Oct. 6, Z, in Chicago; Oct. 8. in
Milwaukee; Oct 8, in Madison; oct. II, in
St. Paul and Minneapolis; Oct. 13, in Kan
sas City; Oct. Is, in Memphis; Oct. 16, in
Nashville; Oct. II, in Chattanooga; Oct.
IS, in Atlanta.
The following pensions have been grant
ed: Wisconsin: Widow OF S. S. Fend,
Boscobel; widow OF w. II. shain, Portage;
widow OF VIC. Weerick, Shopiere. Origi-
nails: WI. Dalton, Rockbridge; O Skin
ner. Pekin; P. Klenk, Milwaukee; j. F.IIhl,
Centralia; r. Reinhard, Colgate; u. S. .Dar-
nell, Black River Falls: S. G. Price, Mil
waukee; NJ. Larkin,g Loganville; A. Burg
dorf, Milwaukee; NJ. Allan, Lymrn; j..
Shanahan, Milwaukee. Minnesota: T. G.
Morey, Minneapolis; F. F. L.ghtner, St.
Paul; W. J. Snyder Austin; S. w. Heydon,
GAINESVILLE. Dakota: A. G. Weseott, Cor.
ona; J. w. Dove, Huron.
The two flags made by the nuns of
Thurles, Ireland havr arrived in the keeping
OF the Rev. j. z. Mcdonnell OF Chicago. One
flag is the stars and strips, and goes to the
Sixty ninth New York regiment because Of
their patriotic treatment OF visitors from
the old sod. The other, which is the flag
OF green and gold, goes to that Irish Reg
iment in the United States getting she.high-
est number OF votes. The flags were
blessed by Archbishop Croke.
Two terrible accidents occurred attEnfield
H., at the reunion OF the Eighty-seventh
Illinois veterans. During the sham battle
cannon was prematurely discharged,
blowing off James Crockett's right arm
An instant later, a few rods distaa.t, an
othrr cannon was discharged prematurely
and stretched five bleeding victims on THE
ground. Gabe Sullenger had both arms
blown off, and will probably die The
|sothers injured were Robert Johnson, Irwin
Reeder. William Daniels and Emanuel Ber-
Fry. They are fearfully lacerated and bunned.
but will survive.
At the national encampment of the Sons
OF Veterans at Des Moines, Iowa, Gen. G.
B. Abbott OF Chicago was chosen com
,nander- in-chief; Col. Henry A. Fraze of
Ohio, lieutenant general; Col. ]. j. Sneaker
OF Missouri, major general. c. B. Cook OF
Dakota COL Applegate OF Nebraska and G..
A. Anderson, j. L. Rakes and E. B. SmHth
ofPennry ylvania were chosen members OF
the council in chief. Wheeling w. Va,
was chosen as the next place OF meeting
The mystery surrounding the disappear
sanee OF Miss Ada Hardy and Charles Pitch
er from Lake View was cleared up. Mat
thew Noble, q friend OF Pitcher, vouches
ior the Information that the couple were
married secretly in Milwaukee and are now
in Atchison. Kan.
Mrs. w. w. Delano. wife OF a wealthy.
TANNER near Abrams, Wis.,, disputed with
her husband over a land title and threw
carbdlic acid in his face, horribly dis6gur.
ing him. He will probably loose both
eyes.
At BLACK Lick, Pa, Alonzo Kelly, a.
young son OF Postmaster John r. Kelly,
fatally shot Charles Rodgers, a burglar,
who WAS caught robbing the postotfice.
An iMiHnction is issued at Winnipeg re.